OCLC Terminologies Service Setup Instructions

This document contains procedures for initial access to the OCLC Terminologies Service.

Before you begin

Your system must meet the following conditions for you to set up the Terminologies Service:

You must have Microsoft ® Office 2003, Vista, or Office 2007 installed on your workstation.

You must be running Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher.

For the paste function to work correctly, the Internet Explorer Internet Security level for paste operations via javascript must be set to Enable. See Enable formatting for more information.

You must have cookies enabled in order for messages about updating the service to stop appearing after you update.

Enable formatting

This security setting ensures that the preferred term's field, indicators, and subfields are formatted correctly and include subfield delimiters when pasted into OCLC Connexion ® browser or Connexion client.

Action

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In the menu bar select Tools, then select Internet Options... in the resulting drop-down list.

Daily login/authentication

When using the Terminologies Service, you are asked for your OCLC authorization and password:

After rebooting your workstation

The first time you try to access a Terminologies Service thesaurus within any new browser session.

In a new browser session, once you have opened the Research task pane and entered a search term, when you select a Terminologies thesaurus from your source list the login window opens. You must enter an OCLC authorization (for User Name) and password to continue your search. You can use an OCLC authorization for any OCLC Cataloging service except CatExpress.

Note 1: You can close and re-open the Research task pane as often as you want to during the same browser session. If you close Internet Explorer completely, you will need to re-authenticate.

Note 2: If you have already accessed the Terminologies Service in an existing browser window, you will need to authenticate again if you open an additional browser window and try to access the service in the new window.